Eddie McAllister was a safety guard who had reportedly wrapped his shift and was having a meal with a good friend when an argument turned lethal early Wednesday in Hawthorne.
McAllister, 56, was a loving father who “didn’t deserve” to have his life minimize brief by gun violence, relations say.
McAllister was shot and killed within the incident reported to Hawthorne police round 2 a.m. within the 3300 block of West Rosecrans Avenue. He was recognized to The Instances by his daughter, Emani McAllister.
“He was a loving particular person, a lovable particular person,” McAllister advised The Instances. “He’s superior.”
In line with Hawthorne police, officers despatched to the placement discovered a person with a gunshot wound. Los Angeles County Hearth Division personnel tried to revive him, however he was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
A suspect was shortly recognized and “tracked to a close-by location in a neighboring metropolis,” the place the person was arrested on suspicion of homicide, in keeping with a Hawthorne Police Division assertion. The suspected gunman was not recognized.
Members of the family advised KABC that McAllister was eating with a good friend after work when he turned concerned in an argument with one other particular person and it turned bodily.
“Truthfully, he didn’t deserve this,” Emani McAllister stated. “It’s simply unhappy that he needed to exit like that.”
She remembered her father warmly. As she spoke with The Instances by telephone, she was interrupted by a customer who expressed their condolences and known as Eddie “a cool man.”
“If that doesn’t provide you with any extra info,” she stated, “all people loves my dad.”
The McAllister household is not any stranger to gun violence.
D’Nary Lamonte Fowler, 19, Emani’s brother, was killed by Los Angeles police on Jan. 2, 2011, amid an obvious theft try.
Within the wake of Fowler’s killing, his and McAllister’s mom, Tameco Brewster, based a nonprofit for these grieving gun deaths, the Motion of Mourning Moms Assn.
McAllister stated she mourned these she had misplaced to gun violence, “and now I embrace my dad.”